I have a big contentious meeting tomorrow. Spending the evening refreshing myself on contractual language and technical specifications. I’ll pound my fist a few times, tell people I’m offended and then throw a big book on the table and turn to pre-marked pages. Then I’ll say “are we done here?” and walk out, or if they object I’ll say “you can bring a claim, but you’re wasting my time now”.
I love contract review day!
2/11
Morning workout
Bunch of old people in front of the DB rack talking non stop.
Plate raises
3x12x45lb
Pec deck
8x12
Left cause my phone would stop ringing.
Only ate papaya salad and rice until 7pm. Then ate some mozzarella sticks, 2 doubles of makers mark, rice, chicken and green beans. Then, after a rough day, ate a pint of ice cream. Fuck. Today was stressful and emotionally exhausting.
This too shall pass.
2/12
Morning workout
Pull-ups
20
RDL
12x135
2x12x225
1x8x225
The weight is easy to move, but I kept thinking this is the rep that cause any back to go out. After 8 reps I figured it wasn’t worth continuing. I was psyching myself out. Also did 5 pull-ups between each set.
BB Rows
3x12x135
The weight is too easy, but I’ve got such a great connection to my back right now I don’t want to increase weight. It’s super slow reps contracting my lats and upper back.
Superset
Lat. raises and DB Rows
3x12/20lbs and 50lbs
Again the rows light, but the MMC and pump are great and don’t want to increase weight.
Food today.
Lunch, two chicken strips from Safeway. I had 10 minutes for lunch.
Dinner, wife ordered a burger from Applebee’s on door dash before I got home. I arrived and DD came shortly after but they didn’t have my burger. Meh, ran to a food truck and got an asada quesadilla. Maybe had 1,000 cals today.
I’m not gonna look at the scale for awhile. My legs are getting leaner. I can see the upper quads on leg day, my arms are far more vascular and abs are popping through.
I see a four pack! Leanest and best I have seen you look. Great work.
Why don’t you come join us for a pint of ice cream at Salt and Straw on Saturday, lol.
Nice job.
Warning - be wary of the chicken nuggets and the mac and cheese. I ballooned up to 210 or so when my kids started eating solid food. My wife always cooked too much, and I couldn’t stand to let it go to waste - maternal and paternal grandparents grew up in the depression, and as a family, we are typically tight with a buck.
My kids dubbed me “The Garbage Can” because I would eat all of their left overs, and clean their plates in restaurants. Imagine my seven year old daughter ordering the 12 oz filet at Boulder Creek, and eating all of it, but nothing else. So, I get her salad, her veg, and her baked potato.
But not her desert, oh hell no.
Maybe that’s why she’s 5’8" and 170 pounds.
Well, that and genetics…my wife is 230. Yikes.
God I love S&S.
Thanks! It’s terrible to lose weight. I hate starving.
Fortunately I hate Mac n cheese unless it’s Hawaiian style. I do eat chicken nuggies form time to time.
Ya, man. I was 275 a few years back. Newly wed life was rough.
I thought you were single, no?
2/13
Morning weight: fuck off scale
Food:
Breakfast - a few pieces of salami, protein bar
Lunch - Vietnamese salad, with rice, shrimp, chicken and an egg roll
Snack - few oz of steak
Dinner - few oz of pot roast
I’d be blown away if this was 1,800 calories. The salad doesn’t sound as fresh, hipster-type food as it was.
Workout
KB Press
4xAMRAPx40lb KBs - think I did 26 reps, 18 reps, 15 reps and 12 reps
Lateral raises
3xamrap
Tricep dips
2xamrap
2/14
Morning weight: n/a
Morning workout:
Superset:
Hanging leg raises and goblet squats with (2) 40lb KBs
3x10
Front squats
2x10x135
Front and Lateral raises
2x18
I moved out two years ago, never bothered to get legally separated.
2/14
Food: complete transparency here
Morning: 3 donuts. Someone brought them in for VDay and at 10am there was a dozen left.
Lunch: kinda skipped. Until my wife brought coffee, bagels and two kids to say hi.
Dinner: pizza, garlic knots and cupcakes
I didn’t overeat on anyone thing, BUT that’s all carbs.
2/15
Morning weight: 206!!! Wtf if I skipped food I could have been 203. Hahaha
Why can’t keto be 70% carbs making you incinerate fat 
You just had an average American day. Bring on the diabetes.
2/17
Today I received the results from my Hormone test. My test level came in 822ng/dL on a scale of 249-836. So, I have nothing to worry about. I’ll probably test again in 5 years just to monitor.
Morning Workout
Incline KB Press
2x20x40lb Kbs
2x15x60lb kbs
1x20x40lb
1x12x40lbs - essentially rest pause set
I read to order another 80lb kb. I have one, but 60s are cutting it on chest day.
Stair stepper
12 minutes
Gonna weigh myself tomorrow.
2/18
Morning Weight: 206
Feeing pretty good about breaking that come Thursday morning. I’m currently on the road and will be home tomorrow evening.
Night workout:
RDL and Pullips
10x135
3x10x225
7x275 - felt pretty good. Weird that this weight felt heavy, but I’m tired of having a back out so don’t expect to push beyond this for a long while.
Pull-ups were alternating grips, in sets of 5
BB Row
3x15x135
DB Row
2x12x45lbs
20x45lbs
12x60lbs - decides to up weight since I’ve been focusing on MMC and really squeezing my back.
Pull Downs
3x12
Curls
1 set of DB curls to hammer curls for a burnout.
I guess the country music in Austin has made @robstein’s brain go soft, lol.
He Posted this
In my training log, lol.
Ha. It’s because I asked how he was doing in your log.
@The_Myth sorry to derail! @dchris asked how things were going and I hit “reply”, sorry for the confusion sir!
Hi Chris, I hope things are well with you and the fam.
I believe it was you (as well as @robstein and possibly even @The_Myth) that I have seen offer suggested books to read in regards to career success. I have actually just completed a 4th and final interview for a supervisor position (in a different organization than my current one), and was wondering if you had any suggested readings for a leadership position such as this?
My experience is more supervising/leading a team on a particular project (Project Manager/Engineer role), but this position would be a non-union Supervisor over unionized employees (up to 40 employees).
It would be a significant career jump for me (if I’m offered the job; the last interview was down to 4 candidates), so I would be looking to get my head out of the individual contributor role and into a supervisory mindset if you had any suggested readings that may help?
Thanks!
